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Garage sales are prohibited in any area zoned commercial or industrial except when an occupied residence is found to be located in such a non-residentially zoned district. Also, should there be a garage sale permit issued that continuously causes high risk traffic safety concerns and/or probable unsafe pedestrian issues within the residential neighborhood and its surrounding traffic entry/exit patterns, the City Manager, in collaborative assessment with the Police Chief and Fire Chief, shall have the delegated right to deny such garage sale permit applications or to reduce the number of garage sale permits to a particular property with reasonable traffic safety measures imposed this written assertion of the City's inherent Police Power has become necessary in order to safeguard the health, safety, and general welfare of its residents to thus assure the general public of the City's commitment to do so. Furthermore, the garage sale operator has accepted and assumed the responsibility to assure that patrons park their vehicles in a safe and neighborly manner because it is the operators' garage sale event that is inviting patrons to park in their residential area in the first place. Garage sale operators shall alert patrons to not park in 'No Parking' zones, or in front of neighboring lots' driveways; such mis-conduct may always be enforced by the Police Department, of course. Should there be a patron who parks their vehicle in a 'No Parking' zone, for example, then this violation will be held against the owner of the vehicle, and against the garage sale permit holder for acquiescing in the violation. In this latter 'acquiescing' determination, the City of Alamo, through the office of the City Manager, shall revoke the privilege of securing garage sale permits to the subject property for the next three (3) garage sale tenures, which may roll over to the next calendar year because violating traffic safety measures, such as parking in 'No Parking' zones, places entire residential neighborhoods at a higher risk where emergency responding vehicles are impeded to access the actual emergency in a prompt manner. (Ord. 14-04-01, 4-3-2001; amd. Ord. 05-01-22, 1-18-2022; Ord. 83-11-22, 11-1-2022)
A. It is unlawful for any person to use street, street right of way, sidewalk, plaza or other public place within the city as a place of business.
B. A person commits an offense if he/she uses any street, sidewalk, plaza or other public place within the city as a place of business as herein prohibited.
C. It is unlawful for any person to use street or street right of way within the city to place any type of advertising for the announcement of the sale. (Ord. 14-04-01, 4-3-2001)